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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
EVERLASTING NOW.
Everlasting Now,
How beautiful art thou!
Through the ferny greenwood dells,
tyhen the oaks vrerd gdlddii;
Hyacinths rang their boni# belisj
A tune bf music oldefi ;
' feorrow and care had swept away
That melody so light and gay i
V’hy did it wake once moi-e that day?
I do not know: But oiiee tigairi
', Thoughts long dead aiid burled;
Shook their wings; a sunny train;
Alid o’er my spirit wearied
'Toured a fresh and childish song;
One t had fogotton long,
jay, not oiie; a flock, a ihrong;
Everlasting Now,
How wonderful art thou!
In a dingy, noisy street,
A pure white lilac growing,
Showered down odors to my feet,
And mingled with their flowing,
Sounds and sights of long ago,
Boses which have ceased to blow,
Winters of forgotten snow.
Stranger faces passing by
Saw I them no longer,
Visions of the inner eye
Ever are thd stronger ■
(lame d fade quite those to me,
bne i here ho longer see,
Smiled.; and vanished suddenly;
Everlasting Now;
How terrible art thou 1
Wandering the river’s side;
When the siin wad setting;
Whispers eanle from far and wide;
. “There is no forgetting;
, Tast is present; Now is vast;
What is future will be past;,
Ail will be but Now at last.”
Then there shot a keen regret
For a harsh word spoken,
Glistening still with tear-drops wet,
Love’s fair flower broken,
Years long past had seen that wrong,
But of bitter thoughts a throng
Sprang to life all fresh and strong.
Everlasting Now,
How bitter-sweet art thou ■
Soul! who never can forget,
Thou must live forever!
Eyes ! with tears of penance wet,
Ye tniist wake forever 1
Canst thdU face the Eternal Now?
br, ns mortal things laid low,
Dost thOu crave an end? Not so i
Thou ! who wakest memory’s ear;
By stick subtle blending
bf the present and the near;
With the life unending;
Tune us to that perfect key,
Giving life its unity,
Lite, which hides itself in thee!
—Keis and Rayyet, Caloutta (India).
The Sentence of Mehemed.
/iHMANZADE ME-'
AJ hemed, the Sirdar
J of the auxiliary
^troopB of Tunisi,
was known . on ac
count of the rigor
ous discipline that
he exercised over
his soldiers. “ft
is not the enemy
you must fear, but me,” he would of
ten remark to the young soldiers, who
came to increase the ranks. Thus his
army was an army of heroes, who
had no fear on the battle-field, hut
who trembled in the presence of their
leader. ij
The first campaign in which ’ they
fought was at Albania, in the battle
against the rebel Greeks, and on that
occasion Mehemed’s men proved them-
Belves efficient. It happened that
Mehemed one day ordered eight
soldiers to remain in ambush at the
“five fountains” of Arts, at which
point the Greeks were likely to open
their attack. They were to stop any
one who should try to pass by, and
they were strictly cautioned not to
dismount or fall asleep. The soldiers
executed with exactness all their in
structions.
! A vehicle which attempted, toward
midnight, to cross the line unob
served, was discovered and stopped.
The man who had charge of the oxen
ran away, abandoning his wagon. On
this wagon was a barrel. It was easy
to ascertain wbat the barrel contained,
even without dismounting and without
falling asleep. You only had to open
the bung-hole to smeli the pleasant
odor of liquor escaping from it. And
it must have been an excellent liquor,
compounded largely of figs and dry
raisins. The Giaurri (Christians) un
doubtedly knew what was good.
The soldiers had not been forbidden,
if they seized liquor, to drink it. And
really they did not drink directly from
the barrel; they merely sunk bul
rushes in it, through which they
sipped the sweet and intoxicating
liquid. Was it not harmless to sip
with such thin rushes? One could
scarcely call that drinking! But just
ly does the Prophet remark that wine
is a deceitful beverage, in which satan
has had his hand, since this drink
brings men to every evil.
First, the soldiers asked each other
why they should sit in their hard sad
dles, when the grass made such a soft
bed on the ground. And if they lay
there for only a short while, nobody
would know it: they could tie the
horses to the wagon, and these certain
ly could tell no tales. After they had
dismounted, the infernal drink per
suaded them that it was a useless task
for eight men to remain on guard;
four would suffice, and the rest could
sleep. To the four men who were to
keep awake, the waiting for their turn
seemed too long, and they agreed that
two might sleep, while the other two
remained true to the orders.
Maruf and Sefer were the two desig
nated to watch for the rest.
“Do you know,” said Sefer to his
friend, “do you know that one man is
of the same value in this case as two?
It will do just as well if only one of us
watches. Do you not agree ?”
Maruf assented,
“I propose,” continued Sefer, “that
we play a game of chess: the loser will
have to watch, and the winner may
sleep!”
Maruf accepted the conditions.
The two Bedouins prepared the
ground in front of where they stood,
and with their spears they traced a
square, dividing it into sixty-four
smaller squares. Then they substitut
ed for the regular pawns the fruits of
the woods. The wild pears became
kings, the apples queens, the castles
were represented by acorns, the bish
ops by rose-hips, the knights hy nuts
and the pawns by berries. The men
thus provided, the game began hy the
light of the camp fire.
At first, Sefer had the advantage,
bet that inebriating drink overcame
him, little by little, so that he was
not in condition to distinguish his
paWriei: He .idei . hid fjueeij; And trds
very heat heiiig Checkmated.
“Sefer;. ju are in a bad mess;’) re
marked Maru- when he saw that the
gante was id his hands:
“You are fight. I am as sleepy as
thq sea when it is calm.”
“You are loosing the game.”
“I can see that; too!”
“Well; like down; in the . name of
Allah. I will vvatcH for you. ”,
Sefer, shook his friend's hand in
grateful acknowledgement of the
sacrifice, and he thought he spoke to
him) but he .only dreamed it. for he
fell asleep immediately.
Maruf, on the contrary, kept his
eyes open, and leaning on his gun, he
looked at his sleeping companions.
But that terrible drink began to mur
mur softly:
“Why do you not sit down? You
could see just as well!”
As Boon as he was seated, Satan
again began to tempt him.
“Why do yoii tire your eyes? If
ydu Shut bne bf them, you will See
with the other just as well as with
both:”
Marti f reflected that; if his eyes wefe
closect; his ears wefe Open; and that he
wotiid bfe ready td start at the small
est danger that .rdight threaten his
cordpanions and himself. And with
the firm. purpose bf dot falling asleep,
lie.slqmbefed as heavily as the rest.
In the meantime; the hidden Greeks
came all of a sudden upon the sleeping
men; untied the hofses of the Turks
and would certainly have killed them,
had not Maruf’s horse, as though he
foresaw the danger, begun to neigh.
The first to awaken was Maruf, and in
a few moments the rest were ready.
They ran to get their arms and stood
on the defence, now fully awake and
sober.
They threw themsel ves on the enemy;
hut it was df no avail. The Greeks
had mounted the horses and laughed
at the Ttirks, Who endeavored to over
come them bn foot;
Mdruf’s horse alohe Would not sub
mit td the Greek whd had mounted
him; and began td fear arid plunge
until he had succeeded in throwing
the fider. He theii Kicked him and
returned td his owner.
Eight meri had one hofse left among
them. What was Mehemed going to
say? The Bedouins, yet young, were
cast down at the thought of death.
They knew their leader would have no
pity for them; and still sadder were
they at the loss of their beloved
horses. Of what use is a man without
a horse ?
Mortally worried at the punishment
they expected, they returned to head
quarters, and, brought face to face
with Ahmanzade, they narrated what
had happened; how they had dis
obeyed his orders, how they had fallen
asleep after drinking the liquor, how
the last two watchmen had played
chess, and finally how they had lost
their horses. Ahmanzade was not in
the habit of making a display of
passion when he had to pass sentence.
In his immovable face, no one could
read whether he decreed life or death.
“As for eight men there remains
only one horse,” he remarked, “you
will agree with me, that there are seven
of you too many. I have never read
in the Koran nor in the Azorat that
eight men should ride one horse, and
as you are such good players, sit down
and let skill decide which of you is to
be the man who is to have the one
horse. All the others are sentenced to
die.”
Having said this, Ahmanzade had
four chess-boards brought in, for the
Turks are in the habit of carrying
chess-boards with them, even in war.
As soon as the men were arranged, he
ordered the Bedouins to begin their
play.
Twelve of the best marksmen were
ready with their rifles to shoot the
losers. Two or three gave in at once
to their stronger adversaries; in others,
despair battled with craftiness against
the advantage of their more skillful
opponents, and the former would win
when the latter had victory in their
hands.
The losers were immediately re
moved, and the noise of several shots
indicated that they had ceased to ex
ist.
The first tilt was over. Four had
lost, four were winners. These last
were paired. New hopes and new
fears. A danger would pass un
observed, and he who had made the
error would raise a cry which was his
death sentence.
Again two lost, and again two were
shot. And now only two remained—
Maruf and Sefer. They found them
selves, as they had been before, in
front of the camp fire. They were the
best players. They began the game
with a good deal of caution, resting
their foreheads on the palms of their
hands, thoughtfully calculating every
move, without hesitating but without
hurrying.
For a long while neither of the two
succeeded in obtaining advantage;
for each gain there was an equal
sacrifice.
The spectators nod to each other
when either one makes a brilliant
move. Little by little, the number
of pawns on the chess-board diminishes;
the main figures lie scattered to the
right and to the left; the situation
becomes plainer; a few more moves,
and Sefer will lose his castle!
Maruf has one more castle than his
adversary, and this means a good deal
at the present stage of the game. The
crowd believes that the game is in his
hands.
All cf a sudden, great drops of sweat
cover the forehead of Maruf—a fear
overtakes him, he trembles through
all his body. He has noticed that, if
his adversary sacrifices his queen in
stead of the castle, he can checkmate
him with the bishop. Would Sefer
“An excellent wife,” awswers Mam!
with a sigh.
Sefer passes a hand over his face,
and begins to murmur as though he
were praying.
Then he asks for water; he washes
his eyes, his llands—first the left ha mi,
theii the fight hfiiii. Urlsedfl, two
guardian angels watch ever by those
who pfav:
“Yesterday night yon gavq me the
game so that I might sleep;” he says.
Mariif does hot answer; bnt bows
hiq head in assent.
“You have always ,beeh a good
friend bf mine; Maruf:” .
Maruf lets his liead drop bn his
breast entirely overcome. Sefer then
slowly lifts his hand to the chess
board and makes a more, not with the
queen, but with Ae castle.
“Checkmated I” you hear murmured
on ail sides. Marnf has won, and
Sefer lost. Sefer rises quietly, offers
his hand for the last time to his friend
Maruf, who seems nailed to his place,
and signals to the soldiers to be ready.
Two seconds later a shot announces
that the tournament is over.—From
the Hungarian, in Komance.
Thirty Years in a Hut.
The door of what has for years been
known in Ashland; Ohio, as the log
hut hermitage was open the other day
for the first time in thirty years. It
was forced oped under the suspicion
that the hermit was Sick. The her
mit’s dog; by a peculiar instinctive
method df communication, led a neigh
bor to the hut. While no person had
heed permitted td enter his hut for
thirty years; if any one approached it
the hefmit. would come out bf his
dwelling; fasten ttte dog and talk with
the visitor.
On a recent morning the neighbor
could not call out “Uncle Fred,” so he
attempted to get in, but coaid not.
He then attempted to look in through
the window, which consisted of bui
one pane of glass six by eight inches
in size, but he could see nothing. He
then called other neighbors, and aftei
breaking open the door by the aid of s
lantern they found the hermit dead in
front of his fireplace; on the ground;
for his hut had no floor and no bed.
He had Blept on the ground for thirty
years.
His hermitage had but bne roorri,
10x12 feet, which was filled with sacks
of nuts and barrels bf garden products;
arid was hung frill from its low ceiling
with herbs gathered from the country
far and near. The floor was filled with
geological specimens. The hermit,
whose name was Matthews, died in the
room in which he was born. He had
taught school in Holmes County,
studied medicine at Mansfield and had
practiced as a physician among his
neighbors, and was highly esteemed
professionally and as a teacher. He
married at about the age of forty a
young pupil in his school in Holmes
County, who on being taken to his
home, which he had told her had four
sections of land with a mill on it, was
so enraged when she found that it had
but four-quarters of an acre of land
and a coffee mill that she left him. He
then vowed to be a hermit. He would
not permit anyone to enter his hut.
He was a man of strong mental powers,
strengthened by his hermit 6tudy and
inspiration. He came out of his hut
often to lecture on politics. He had
evolved free trade in his study and
other subjects of interest. The County
Infirmary directors have made him an
allowance for years. He had not had
his hair cut or been shaved for years.
—Cleveland Leader.
GEORGIA NEWS
Items of General Interest Picied Up
All Oyer me Stale.
Big Prehistoric Americans.
The American continent seems to
have been the place where big men
abounded, for here are found many
remains of human beings much larger
than any of its present inhabitants.
At Chancal, thirty miles north of Lima
(Peru), very large human skulls were
dug up only a few years ago by Doctor
Le Plongeon. Others have been un
earthed on. the Island of Puna, in the
Gulf of Guayaquil, at the entrance oi
the Guayaquil Kiver. A Jesuit father
named Anilo Oliva wrote an ancient
history of Peru, dictated by an old
archive keeper, Quippu Camayoc, a
Peruvian. Oliva’s work exists only in
manuscript, and is in the British Mu
seum, London; but the writer has a
copy of it. Oliva says that Puna, as
well as the opposite coast, was former
ly peopled by giants who had come
from Central America. In the work
of Zarate we read that they were as
bad as they were big, so that they be
came a terror to all the other inhab
itants. Those tall fellows had their
strongholds particularly at the Island
Puna and at Point Santa Elena, Guay
aquil. Some of their works can yet be
seen in those places in the shape of
immense stone and adobe walls, and
more especially in the great wells
which they dug to supply themselves
with water. The career of those bad,
big people was probably brought to a
close by some electrical phenomena,
for tradition says that the gods de
stroyed them with fire from heaven. —
New York Tribune.
The “Kitchen Leaven” is Working.
The “People’s Kitchen” recently es
tablished in Vienna is an amplification
or the “kitchens” already in success
ful operation in America, on the
model of the famous “New England
Kitchen” of Boston. The Viennese
have taken so kindly to the palatable
cooking and wholesome menus pro
vided for them that their kitchen is
providing 50,000 meals daily.
The prices, of course, are scaled
down to the minimum and permit a j ever,
person to dine comfortably for seven ] ences amon
cents. For this sum he may have soup, i they are determined to make a success
meat, bread, vegetables, pudding, and ; of the association. The Cordele asso-
Aiiarita’s Celebration will occur on
the 20th df next December. The ex
ercises will begin at i o’clock in the
afterridori aiid will be held at the state
capitol; That program tva§ decided at
a recent ifleetirig of the pioneer's.-
* * *
Thri Augusta Exposition , directors
ha-fe Appointed Colpriel H: I. Kimball
commissioner frir the Aiigusta Exposi
tion at Chicago, and will give him au
thority to represent the interests of
onr exposition at the World’s Fair and
elsewhere.
*, * *
Every year the Crawford county
farmers swoop down upon Macon one
day in October about 500 strong, each
farmer bringing a load of cotton. The
procession is sometimes two miles
long. The warehousemen alway give
them a banquet at night, when eatin
and drinking and speech-making i
the order of the evening.
* * *
At A recent meeting df the hoard df
directors of the Atigrista exposition;
a resolution was tinadimottsly adopted
that it is riot the intention of the
company td interfere in any way with
the plans of the citizens of Birming
ham; Ala;, in their desire to enterfairi
the Confederate veterans at their pro
posed reunion. The Augusta Exposi
tion Company has appointed Novem
ber the 21st and 22d as Confederate
vetefads’, day. All confederates, sotitji
and north; are cordially incited to at
tend.
* * *
Captain J. B. James, manager of
the Albaugh-Georgia Fruit Company,
has an order for 100,000 peach trees
to go to Iowa. This company has one
million fruit trees to sell, and Captain
James says he will not be able to fill
all the orders he receives. There will
be fully four million fruit trees for
sale by Unrsetymen around Fort Val
ley this fall. The fruit business is nd
doubt the Salvation of this section and
gives employment to a large number
Of hands who spend their earnings
with the merchants of the town.
* * *
Editor T. It. Gibson; of the Arigris-
ta Evening jVeivs, has decided to accept
his appointment as consul to Beirut,
Syria. He will leave in about six
weeks for his nc-w post. Mr. Gibron
is one of the most popular young men
in the state, and liked by everybody,
and is a social leader. He is a gentle
man of refinement and line intellect
and one of the best writers on the
Georgia press. He is well equipped
for his new office ami, as a diplomat,
will grace his country with dignity in
foreign lands and will command re
spect always. Mr. Gibson has not yet
decided who ho will appoint as his as
sistant.
♦ * *
Sewing machines are at the bottom
of a very interesting piece of legisla
tion that has been occupying the at
tention of Judge Westmoreland’s court
in Atlanta for several days. The de
fendant in the suit is Mr. W. J. Me-
caslin and the plaintiff is the Farmers’
Alliance exchange of Georgia. Col
onel W. L. Peek appeared a6 the busi
ness representative of tho exchange.
Judge W. It. Hammond was attorney
for the exchange. Mr. Mecaslin is
charged with dereliction in that he
failed to deliver at the proper time
and according to the terms of the con
tract, 1,000 sewing machines, which
were bon ht of him by Colonel Peek,
as manager of the alliance exchange.
It was claimed that Mr. Mecaslin de
livered only 360 machines according
to contract. The others were shipped
out of the appointed time. The ex
change was asked to pay the freight,
which should have been paid by Mr.
Mecaslin, and other things.
* * *
Sumter’s farmers will eat home-
raised hog and hominy under their
own vine and fig tree next year.
Never has so much attention been giv
en to hog raising before, and as a re
sult nearly every farmer in the county
will save enough meat this winter to
supply his family a portion of next
year, at least,while not a few will save
enough to supply the r family and la
borers, too, the entire year. One far
mer stated that in his immediate nigh-
borhood twenty-one farmers would
save enough meat to run them the en
tire year. This looks like prosperity
sure enough, for with their smoke
houses and corn cribs in Sumter
county, and homeraised horses and
mules in the stable, our farmers are
upon a solid basis and will soon be
independent of the schemes and ma
chinations of Wall streetmoney sharks,
who seek to grind them beneath tho
heel of oppression.
* * *
Turpentine Operators Aleet.
The Cordele Turpentine Operators’
Operative association met the past'
week in regular monthly session. The
following delegates were elected to the
annual meeting in Savnnnah: A. Frid-
gen, E. L. Vickers, W. B. Mathews,
J. A. Baldwin, W. H. Clements and
C. O. Green. 'J his meeting promises
to he quite interesting, as some very
important measures will be discussed.
The rules will doubtless be amended
so as to put the association upon a
more substantial and solid basis than
Notwithstanding recent differ-
some of the members,
lafgqf than it
was last session, and it was {lie lafsest
ing of the
?■»•*! THE HEWS IN GENERAL.
coffee, with fruit or cheese by way of
an appetizing finish. A supper ol
cold meat, vegetables, pudding, with
tea or coffee, also costs seven cents,
bnt it is possible to breakfast on coffee,
soup, bread, ham and eggs for four
cents.
ciation is in favor of employing a man
who will devote his whole time to or
ganizing sub-associations and working
for the welfare of the order.
The “Tech” Opens.
One hundred and fifty bright and
active young men, glowing with health
Greater, even than the low prices, is
see that move? On that depends life the advantage to the ignorant classes
and death! j of good food prepared in an appetiz-
Sefer looks at the chess-board for a ■ ing way. It is this enlightening which and full of ambition and energy, each
long while; his looks betray that he ■ it is hoped in all such enterprises will j intent upon carving out a future for
has seen the move that will save him. I prove the thin edge of the wedge that j himself, entered the big stone arch-
But he does not touch the men and he shall drive asunder the rock of stu-] way of the state Technological school
seems to hesitate. pidity upon which more than the | at Atlanta last Wednesday morning
“Marnf,” he asks all of a sudden, ignorant classes have gone to pieces in ! and became students of that institu-
“how many children have you at the cooking line. Scientific cooking j tion for the fall term. It was the fall
home?” is no longer a name; it is a recognized j opening of the school. One hundred
“Friar,” is the answer that ponies j necessity, and its dyspeptic substitute | of the young men were old students of
from trembling lijos. is not to be muoh longer put up with,: the school, having been present
“You hays a good ■wife?’’ I-—New York Times. __ j throughout the last session, whil6-fifty
1 of them were new recruits. The open-
opening the school has had since trio
years ago. The new students came
from every section of the state, and
r'ebXesjented a larger constituency than
ever befoie: .Tifey came from the
mountains and from the io# hinds.
The majority of the neWs^rideqts are
farmers’s sons, young men with
and ambition, who have saved up with
strict economy, enough money to bear
the eXperises of a course in this insti
tution Numbers of them are browned
by foiling in the sdn, btit their faces
beiokeri the pfesenee of determined
character. It was an army of yonn;
Moused frcm to Most Important
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YELLOW JACK RAMPANT.
Eighteen New Cases Reported in Bruns
wick in One Day.
Whittentofi mills at Taunton, Maes.,
started all departments on full time
Tuesday, giving employment to more
than 1,000 persons.
The large mercantile establishment
men who will be heard from in the , of Wolf A Goldman, at Newport,Ark.,
fritrire. j was destroyed by fire Tuesday even-
Dr. Hophins is ranch encouraged i ing. Lose, §50,000; insurance about
over the outlook for the institution.
The school has just entered the sev
enth year of its existence and the re
sults of training in it are beginning
to show.
Biblical Bail,
In the early days of interior TVfigj
souri the late Judge E——- Cut; Cord-'
wood, cleared up his homestead farm;
and was employed upon one side of
nearly every ease that came up, being
for some years the only lawyer in the
county.
He had So books except an old
leather-covered Bible and an old vol
ume or'twd of histoty; similarly bound,
bnt had read law a short time in Ken
tucky in his youth. He was Very small
and irisigriifie'ant in appearance, bnt
became before his death a splendid
lawyer and an honored Judge.
A young attorney from thp East
settled in the little country town, with
his library of about half a dozen new
and handsomely bound law books, and
on his first appearance in a ease he
brought most of his library to the Jus
tice’s office iri a fine; beautifully
flowered carpet bag, popular in that
day. E was engaged against him;
and, as usual, had not a book.
When his adversary carefully drew
his books from his pretty carpet bag
and laid them on the table, E
looked astonished, but quickly recov
ered his ready resources, and asked
the Justice to excuse him for a few
moments. He hurried to his home
stead; half a mile or so away, and put
his old leather-bound Bible and his
tories into a grain sack and brought
them to court; imitating his opponent
in layirig them before him on the
table.
The evidence was introduced, and
the Eastern man, being for the jflain-
tiff, made his opening argument and
read at length from his text books.
E made his characteristic speech
in reply, closing hy reading law from
his old Bible just the reverse of that
read by his opponent and took his
seat, putting his Bible on the table.
His adversary reached over and
picked it up, and seeing what it was
eagerly addressed the Justice:
<r Your Honor,” said he, “this man
is a humbug and a pettifogger. Why,
sir, this is the Bible from which he
has pretended to read law.”
The old Justice looked indignant,
and interrupting the young attorney,
said:
“Set down! What better law can
we get than the Bible?” He then de
cided the case in favor of the defend
ant.—Green Bag.
Where Pearls Are Found.
Pearls are found in the shells of
many kinds of mollusks. They occur
in the common edible oyster, but are
not of value. Very large white ones
are occasionally obtained from the
giant clam, which is the biggest known
bivalve, but they are not worth much.
They are always symmetrical and of
some beauty, having a faint bnt pleas
ing sheen when looked at sideways.
The shells of the giant clam are occa
sionally used for baptismal fonts in
churches. The animal is found, buried
up to the lips, hinge downward, in
coral reefs. Men have lost their lives
by stepping between the open valves,
which closed immediately upon the
foot, holding them until they drowned.
It is said that pearls of a yellowish
color are sometimes obtained from the
pearly nautilus. But the natives of
the Sooloo Archipelago throw them
away, considering them unlucky. They
declare that, if a man should fight
while wearing a ring with such a pearl,
he would certainly be killed. Pearl-
bearing mussels are found in the lakes
and streams of many parts of the
world, including the United States.
These mollusks have yielded great
numbers of valuable gems in this
country, so that attempts have been
made to establish pearl fishing on a
commercial basis in some rivers.
The chief sources of supply of
mother-of-pearl shells are the Torres
Straits and West Australian fisheries
and the trade centers of Singapore and
Macassar. Innumerable islands of the
Pacific contribute more or less of this
valuable product — notably Tahiti.
Three varieties are recognized com
monly—the white, the black edged
and the golden edged. This statement
refers to the pearl oyster, which fur
nishes the finest mother-of-pearl. The
shells of a single oyster have been
known to weigh as much as fourteen
pounds. The utmost economy and
skill are exercised in cutting up the
shells, each part being made to serve
some particular purpose. Thus, from
a single one of good size will be ob
tained a penholder, a pistol butt, two
or three knife handles, a poker chip
and a dozen and a half buttons of dif--
ferent sizes.—Washington Star.
A Clever Irisb Gin.
Miss Mary O’Brien, a clever Irish girl,
has won the Scientific Research Scholar
ship (£150 per aunum for two years) at
the University College of Wales, Abery
stwyth. Since the subject selected must
bear u pon an industry, she proposes to
take up the question, so important to
agriculturists, of the nitrogen supply of
leguminous and other plants. Only one
of these scholarships has previously been
awarded to a woman. Miss O’Brien was
educated at the Friends Schools, Ack-
worth and York, gaining an open
scholarship of £25 for Natural Science
at the Aberystwyth College in 1890.
After passing through an advance science
course, she took her B. Sc. degree last
year with second class honors in botany
and zoology. In the former subject she
was third in order of merit and was alone
in her clsss; in the latter she was placed
fourth, and no candidate attained to the
first class.
France has the distinction of being
the most carefully cultivated agririUl*
tarai oountry ia Europe, <-
half.
A Chicago dispatch at Tuesday says:
Aimed men Will in the future accom
pany every iiititi hauling express or
mail cars from Chicago? to any point
east or south.
Three millions in gold was received
at the treasury in Washington Wed-
h€sdaf ftotu the New York sub-treasu-
iy i$ an indication of a favorable turn
in the gold situation.
A cable dispatch of Tuesday team
London nnnounberi that Benjamin
Whitworth, the great manufacturer, of
Manchester, England, and 2 well
known philanthropist, is dead.
Three deaths from smallpox were re
ported in New York Tuesday' morning
from Kiverside, North Brothers’
Island, Only one new case was re
ported at sanitary headquarters,
A Washington dispatch of Wednes
day says: Secretary Carlisle has called
for the resignation of J.- It Garrison,
deputy first comptroller of the treas
ury. Mr. Garrison has been more than
twenty years in the treasury depart
ment.
, The navy department has advices of
the arrival of the United States cruiser
Charleston at Janeiro; Brazil, Wed
nesday. It is anticipated that some
authentic news of the progress of
of events there will now reach the
United States through the navy de
partment.
Advices received by the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company’s steamship
Empress of India, which arrived at
Vancouver Tuesday from Hong Kong
and Yokohoma, is as follows: Reports
of the damage done by the flood at
Gife, Japan, state that 682 houses
it ere swept away; 14,025 houses flood
ed; 238 people killed and 30,205 ren
dered homeless,
A New York dispatch of Tuesday
says: The Morgan line steamship
Algiers which was loaned to Health
Officer Jenkins by C. P. Huntington
to carry food supplies to the yellow
fever sufferers at Brunswick, Ga.,
now lying in Erie basin in Brooklyn,
is being rapidly fitted up for her er
rand of mercy. Dr. Bell, the editor
of The Sanitarian and former quaran
tine commissioner,' has volunteered
his services to Health Officer Jen
kins. He will accompany the expe
dition as the medical officer in charge.
The general assembly of democratic
societies of Pennsylvania was called
to order in the fifth annual conven
tion, at Allentown, Tuesday morning.
For half an hour before the time the
Academy of Music rang with cheers
for the democratic leaders and a tre
mendous ovation greeted Vice Presi
dent Stevenson when he entered the
hall. Two thousand people filled the
hall at the opening of the convention.
President Black immediately deliv
ered an admirable address, which was
punctuated with thundering applause.
A special of Tuesday from Guthrie,
0. T., says: The Cherokee strip has
been settled a week and things are
getting down to a basis. Of the 200,-
000 who entered the land on the 16th,
over half have left. The population
of the new town is about as follows;
Pawnee, 1,000: Kirk, 3,000; Kildare
1,000; Ponca, 1,000; Enid, 1,000;
Pond Creek, 1,000; Alva, 1,000;
Wooward, 1,000; Perry, 12,000. Perry
is destined to be the leading town of
the strip, and the governor has issued
his proclamation declaring it to be a
city of the first-class.
Surgeon General Wyman, of the
marine hospital service, received a ca
blegram Wednesday from Consul
Rosenthal, at Leghorn, Italy, stating
that cholera was increasing at an
alarming rate there. During the past
twenty-four hours twenty-six new
cases developed, making a total of
sixty-five cases now under treatment.
Dr. Wyman has ordered Dr. C. Irvin
Cross from Marseilles to Leghorn to
4ook after the interests of the service
at that place. A cablegram was also
received at the marine hospital de
partment from the consul at Strettin,
Germany, announcing the presence of
cholera there.
Governor Carr of North Carolina,
on Wednesday, appointed J. S. Mann,
of Newbern, chief state commissioner
of shell fish for two years to succeed
W. H. Lucas. Bitter attacks have
been made on Lucas and the strict law
of the state which has broken up oyster
dredging. Last year there were sev
eral canneries operated by Baltimore
packers and these oysters were simply
canned and then shipped to Baltimore
where labels were placed on the cans
and they were sold as Maryland oys
ters. This year these canneries will
not be in operation, the mehinery
having all been removed. There is
opportunity for people of the state to
can and ship oysters.
Will Sot Strike.
Grand Master Sargent, of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Fireman, is in
receipt of a telegram from the fire
man’s committee at Cincinnati, stat
ing that the vote of the Big Four em
ployes was adverse to a strike, and
that the trouble that bad been im
pending is now settled, No particu
lars of the settlement have been sent
to him further than that no strike has
been declal%d.
Fearful Flood ia Japan.
A San Francisco special says: The
steamship Peru, Monday evening from
China and Japan, brought the news to
September 3d. The Japan Gazette,
dated August 26, gives an account of
a great flood in Fifn Ken. Three
hundred and four were drowned, and
30,000 are receiving relief. It says
also that 2,356 cases are reported
and 447 dead.
The" Oniirion of the Weather Farors
the Spread of the Plagne.
Advertise oovr, it will paf yeo,
A Brunswick special says; From
indications at the Wednesday noon
meeting yellow jack is preparing to
wreak its vengeance upon all the peo-
people remaining in the city. Eighteen
cases are reported, and it is thought
that mofe eases are in the city not re
ported. The weather is favorable for
the spread of the disease.
Twenty-five negroes were sworn in
by the police department, and are pa
trolling the city armed with Winches
ter rifles. This was done to check any
uprising of negroes.
The following are the cases reported
at She noon meeting: Jimmie Latham,
white; Anna Bell Jones, colored;
Mueray Furlow, white; Jimmie Bai
ley, white; Bailey Everett, colored;
J. B. Mock, white; Arthur Roberts,
colored; Berry Everett, colored;
Alice Keely and her two children,
Willie and Harry; Alfred Reynolds,
white; Victoria Mills, Alfred Mills,
Oscar Lamkin, Willio Mills, two chil
dren oi Mrs. Larentzon.
PREVIOUS DISPATCHES.
Two new cases of yellow fever de
veloped at Brunswick Tuesday. Mrs.
Sleeper, and Mamie Nana, colored.
There was one death, that of Mrs.
Stokes, Six patients were discharged
Miss Theda Rhinehardt, Mrs. Sleeper,
William Johnson’s wife and mother-in-
law, Myfick Baily and another color
ed woman, erroneously reported of
ficially as sick. There are now under
treatment fourteen cases, the smallest
number at any one time since the epi
demic was declared, The outlook
is favorable for the continued
decreas of malignant cases and
la oW rats of mortality.
The report of Treasurer Dart shows
cash subscriptions received to date of
$5,429.62. The report of Joseph W.
Smith, manager of the commissary,
shows liberal donations of provisions
from Atlanta, Valdosta,- Montezuma,
Quitman and Dawson, Ga.
COLORED POLICEMEN.
Charles Clark, a reputable colored
citizen, has been appointed a special
government sanitary inspector. The
Downing Company, under the man
agement of Alfred V. Wood, resumed
the naval stores business Monday. This
encouraging move will employ fifty
people. Before completing arrange
ments with Mr. Wood, Mr. Downing
intended moving his entire business,
amounting to several million dollars
annually, to Savannah.
Mayor Lamb and Chief Beach have
appointed several reputable colored
citizens on fhe police force. Captain
Barney Dart and Lieutenants Lee
Robinson and O. V, Barknloo arrived
from St. Simon’s, and, after consulta
tion with Mayor Lamb and Chief
Beach, all the arms, accoutrements and
ammunition of the Brunswick Rifle
men were placed in the police bar
racks, subject to an emergency call.
Owing to the lack of a council quo
rum, and Brunswick now being un
der a provisional government and in
great need of an active city govern
ment, it was resolved, on motion of
Colonel Goodyear, by a joint meeting
of the boards, to authorize Mayor
Lamb and the members of the council
present, to appoint a full body of Al
dermen, and hold regular meetings, to
secure proper police protection for
Brunswick and enforce the mandates
of that body. The sanitary force was
increased to clean the city thorougly.
READY FOR A RIOT.
Out of 600 white men, 500 can be
relied on. In addition, several hun
dred good colored men, out of the
1,700 in the city, will side with the
good element of the whites. If cir
cumstances should arise demanding it,
150 men can be secured in an hour’s
time from St. Simon’s island. Such
preparations are only made to meet
any movement that may arise. At
present the disturbing element is un
der good control and, unless some
thing unforeseen happens, can be
handled. . If necessary voldnteer im-
mnnes from Savannah and Jackson
ville will be asked for by special trains
until the militia arrives.
EIGHT NEW CASES THURSDAY.
The board of health of Brunswick
at the Thursday noon meeting an
nounced eight new cases and one dis
charged.
CORBETT AND MITCHELL
Agree to Fight for a Purse of Forty
Thousand Dollars.
A New York dispatch of Sunday
says: The international prize fight be
tween “Jim” Corbett and “Charley”
Mitchell for the heavy-weight cham
pionship and a purse of $40,000 will
take place before the Coney Island
Athletic club, if there is no interfer
ence from the authorities of Kings
county. Mitchell signed articles Sat
urday in the Hoffman house, bind
ing himself to fight the Californian in
the arena by the sea in December. The
articles were sent to Corbett, who is
fgaining at Lock Arbor, Asbury Park,
ftnd he signed them there Monday.
WORK OF WHITECAPS.
They are Burning Gin Houses in Parts
of Mississippi.
A special of Tuesday from Brook-
haven, Miss., says that Frederick Grif
fith, a colored farmer living fourteen
miles southwest of that town in Frank
lin county, had his cotton house and
contents burned by whitecaps a few
nights ago. The mill and cotton gin
and contents owned by Dan Sasser, in
the southern portion of Lincoln coun
ty, was burned te the ground. Con
siderable excitement prevails and more
trouble is expected.
Virginia Bonds Quoted.
At the stock exchange at New York
Thursday, $10,000 Virginia funded
debts bonds of 1891 sold at 51}. These
bonds were listed Wednesday at the
stock exchange and were issued under
the settlement of July 1, 1891, as made
by the Virginia bondholders’ commit
tee.
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